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FromMiddle Englishscateren,skateren, (alsoschateren, seeshatter), fromOld English*sceaterian, probably from a dialect ofOld Norse. Possibly related toProto-Indo-European*skey-(to cut, split, shatter). CompareMiddle Dutchscheteren(to scatter),Low Germanschateren,Dutchschateren(to burst out laughing); and is apparently remotely akin toAncient Greekσκεδάννυμι(skedánnumi,scatter, disperse).[1] andTocharian Bkät-(to scatter, sow seeds).Doublet ofshatter.

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Verb

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scatter (third-person singular simple presentscatters,present participlescattering,simple past and past participlescattered)

  1. (ergative) To (cause to)separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
    The crowdscattered in terror.
  2. (transitive) Todistributeloosely as bysprinkling.
    Her ashes werescattered at the top of a waterfall.
    • 1697,Virgil, “The Third Book of theGeorgics”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. [], London: [] Jacob Tonson, [],→OCLC:
      Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Theirscattered cottages, and ample plains?
  3. (transitive, physics) Todeflect (radiation or particles).
    • 2008,BioWare,Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→ISBN,→OCLC, PC, scene: Chasca planetary description:
      Chasca's ring is unique. It appears to be, for lack of a better term, a massive piece of alien "installation art." The rings are made of small pieces of synthetic material, and are almost invisible from space. From the ground, they catch andscatter the light of Matano in picturesque ways. It is not known who created the ring or when.
  4. (intransitive) Tooccur orfall at widely spaced intervals.
  5. (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
    toscatter hopes or plans
  6. (transitive) To be dispersed upon.
    Desiccated stalksscattered the fields.
    • 2016, J. D. Vance,Hillbilly Elegy, page21:
      [] its beauty is obscured by the environmental waste and loose trash thatscatter the countryside.
  7. (transitive, baseball) Of apitcher: to keep down the number ofhits orwalks.
  8. (slang, US) To leave.
    When the police showed up, Iscattered.

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Derived terms

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Translations

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to disperse
to cause to separate
to distribute loosely
physics: to deflect
to occur at intervals
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Noun

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scatter (countable anduncountable,pluralscatters)

  1. The act ofscattering ordispersing.
  2. Acollection ofdispersedobjects.
    • 2006, Theano S. Terkenli, Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre,Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space, Springer Science & Business Media,→ISBN, page84:
      The Los Angeles Basin evolved as a mobility surface principally through the combination of an initial system of electric railways connecting ascatter of agricultural settlement settlements.
    • 2007, David W. Anthony,The Horse, the Wheel, and Language, Princeton: Princeton University Press, page498:
      A broadscatter of kurgan graves in the steppes contained imported Tripolye C2 pots (among other imported pot types) and a few, like Serezlievka, also contained Tripolye-like schematic rod-headed figurines.
    • 2015, Ian Shennan, Antony J. Long, Benjamin P. Horton,Handbook of Sea-Level Research, John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN, page19:
      The plot of all our sea-level index points shows ascatter of data points that do not overlap[]

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  1. ^Skeat

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